A character in Argo (2012)

Lester Siegel quotes from Argo (2012)

Alan Arkin

Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Argo (2012): in 4 of its 10 quotes

A line from Lester Siegel

If I'm going to make a fake movie, it's going to be a fake hit.
Jack O'Donnell

Scenes with Lester Siegel

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Lester Siegel

Okay, you got six people hiding out in a town of what, four million people, all of whom chant "death to America" all the livelong day. You want to set up a movie in a week. You want to lie to Hollywood, a town where everybody lies for a living. Then you're gonna sneak 007 over here into a country that wants CIA blood on their breakfast cereal, and you're gonna walk the Brady Bunch out of the most watched city in the world.

Past about a hundred militia at the airport. That's right.

Siegel

Right. Look, I gotta tell you. We did suicide missions in the army that had better odds than this.

Reporter

So the title refers to...

Lester Siegel

The Argo, it's the, you know, the thing...

Reporter

Jason and the Golden Fleece, or...?

Siegel

The spaceship, it flies around space, all over space...

Reporter

Is it the Argonaut?

Siegel

No.

Reporter

Then what does "Argo" mean?

Siegel

It means, Argo **** yourself.

Lester Siegel
[Lester Siegel and John Chambers look back on the success of the operation]

The saying goes, "What starts in farce ends in tragedy."

No, it’s the other way around.

Siegel

Who said that exactly?

Marx.

Siegel

Groucho said that?

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